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| tathi |
| quote: | | um, yeah. coz good workers have never been taken advantage of or sexually harassed or abused or pressured in any way!! |
nah man it happens, last time i checked it was in your mums job description |
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| Paulie |
| PKC is oblivious to that tathi, cause hes time is busy spent in between hairy ass cheeks! |
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| pkcRAISTLIN |
| quote: | Originally posted by Paulie
PKC is oblivious to that tathi, cause hes time is busy spent in between hairy ass cheeks! |
well, i asked you to wax that big hairy greek arse of yours, what else could i do? and next time ill let you play alexander if you really want... |
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| pkcRAISTLIN |
keep up the good work johnny.
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A WOMAN sacked while on maternity leave says she has no choice but to accept the decision because it's too expensive to mount a legal challenge under the Federal Government's industrial changes.
Elaine Gray was sacked from her job as marketing manager at Dialect Solutions, a payments technology company, five months into maternity leave.
She was not given any notice and was also denied termination pay.
The Government's industrial legislation, Work Choices, allows employers to sack workers for operational reasons.
If a company employs less than 100 people, as is the case with Dialect Solutions, Work Choices removes unfair dismissal protection for employees who are made redundant.
Under the previous industrial relations (IR) regime, employees who felt they had been unfairly dismissed could challenge their termination in the Australian Industrial Relations Commission (AIRC).Now, employees of companies with less than 100 workers, can only challenge terminations through an unlawful termination action, which progresses to the Federal Court if it fails to be resolved in the AIRC during conciliation.
Ms Gray said that five months after giving birth to her son, Paul, she received a call from Dialect Solutions informing her she no longer had a job at the company.
She said she spent as much as she could on legal advice and was informed that she had been treated unfairly on the grounds of unlawful termination.
However, in correspondence with her Dialect Solutions she was told they believed she had not been treated unfairly.
\"The next step was to take it further, which, with a new house, mortgage, family to raise, that's not a situation that we're able to entertain,\" Ms Gray said in Sydney today.
Opposition Leader Kim Beazley said Ms Gray's situation showed the danger the Federal Government's Work Choices legislation posed to Australian workers.
\"You can come back from maternity leave like Elaine Gray and be sacked and there is no recourse,\" Mr Beazley said.
\"If you're employed by a company that employs less than 100 ... you're just gone.\" |
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| skot_e |
So I guess the chances of full paid maternity leave aint gonna happen.
Don't know if it was in SA or reported nationally or not, but there was a group of abatoir workers all sack and offered their jobs back under a contract. They took their dispute to the new body (whatever its called) and the body ruled in favour of the business as they argued that they would go broke if they didn't make changes. Disgraceful. |
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| tathi |
| I work at a pretty ing e company (one that will hire asians over aussies because they tend not to 'speak out' when they're being ed over) but i found out they are attempting to surreptitiously outsource our department to the Phillipines, i hope i've left the country by then! |
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| skot_e |
That's e dude. how long you need to hang on?
these reforms are going to over this country. it's now easier to sack staff, so that will make it easier to do just what you say and send jobs offshore. The economy will suffer, and businesses will then suffer, and retrench their staff. Vicious cycle.
Although i didn't want the GST it has strengthened our economy (largely because the govt takes more of our money in tax), but the IR reforms - Howard will be cursed and criticised for many years. |
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| skot_e |
| I've just seen Acting Minister Ruddock say on the news that it's still illegal to sack someone on maternity leave. i guess they'll have to reinstate this poor woman, and then wait till her first day back. |
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| tathi |
| quote: | Originally posted by skot_e
That's e dude. how long you need to hang on?
these reforms are going to over this country. it's now easier to sack staff, so that will make it easier to do just what you say and send jobs offshore. The economy will suffer, and businesses will then suffer, and retrench their staff. Vicious cycle.
Although i didn't want the GST it has strengthened our economy (largely because the govt takes more of our money in tax), but the IR reforms - Howard will be cursed and criticised for many years. |
I leave November 7th so hopefully they hold out until then! |
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| Philby |
| quote: | Originally posted by tathi
I leave November 7th so hopefully they hold out until then! |
what's leonard going to do without you?? |
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| tathi |
| i'll give him tonydanza's mobile :p |
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| quineska |
One thing is clear: any IR dispute has just become a hell of a lot more expensive. Before, industrial disputes were handled in the IRC, but now they are handled in real courts. Any small business could now be sent broke by ridiculous lawsuits from unscrupulous ex-employees, even if they win. Before, it was alot cheaper to fight industrial disputes.
I guess the big winners out of these laws aren't really small business, but solicitors. Guess who was a lawyer before they entered politics... |
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